§ ADMITTED. DIED, # - r—f 3 # DISEASES. o : # # #| 3 | #| | | 3 | # 5 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 3 || 5 Genito-urinary tuberculosis. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . 1 | 1 1 Stricture... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 |. 7 Hypospadias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • * * 1 |. 1 1 Cystitis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 || 7 || 13 2 INJURIES. Contusions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 || 9 || 12 2 Sprains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. |. 3 1 Burns.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 || 3 || 4 Incised wounds.................. 3 |. 3 DISLOCATIONS Humerus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 || 4 1 Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 |. 1 1 FRACTURES. Humerus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 || 4 1 Hip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 || 2 || 5 || 7 5 Pott's.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 Rib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. Colles'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 || 3 2 Tibia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 1 First metatarsal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 JaW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 1 Patella (old). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 | 1 1 Clavicle... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘. . . . . 1 1 No disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 || 14 | 10 || 24 11 Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 |455 |445 1900 121 | 104 |225 || 253 OBSTETRICAL REPORT. RULES FOR ADMISSION TO THE LONG ISLAND HOSPITAL Number of children born . Nativity of Mothers. Civil Condition. SURGICAL OPERATIONS. Abscess, ischiorectal 6 6 cervical 6 (, axillary 6 & alveolar { % forehead Septic leg ‘‘ hand . § 6 perineum Retroverted uterus . Carried forward Persons eligible to care in the hospital at Long Island, Boston Harbor, are as follows: 1. Any person who has a legal settlement in the City of Boston and stands in need of relief and is ill. 2. Any such person who, if well, could be supported at his home, but who, being ill, needs special medical or surgical care which he cannot afford to provide. 3. Any person having no settlement in Boston and who is too ill to be removed to the city or town of settlement (or to a State institution, if without a settlement), and who is in need of immediate relief. The question of settlement will be determined by the Institutions Registration Department, 28 Court square; office hours 9 to 5 o'clock; on Saturdays 9 to 1 o’clock. Any person able to walk should apply at that office. An ambulance and carriage are at the disposal of that office, and will be sent for persons unable to walk to carry them to the boat. Cases of contagious illness, such as scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc., are not received at Long Island, but should be referred to the City Hospital. Persons in the last stages of disease should not be subjected to the fatigue and exhaustion of the journey to Long Island. In the case of a person who does not speak English it is desirable that he should be accompanied by a friend who can interpret when he makes his application at 28 Court square. It is very desirable that application should be made the day before it is intended that the person should go to the hospital, or, if an emergency case, before 12 o'clock, in order that the settlement may be investigated and the ambulance or carriage sent, if necessary. A person applying at this office too late for admission on the same day will be sent to the Wayfarers’ Lodge (men), or to the City Temporary Home (women). The executive force of the hospital at Long Island consists of a first Medical Officer and the four House Officers, who have immediate charge under the direction of the Superintendent and Resident Physician and the Visiting Medical Staff. There is a Training School for Nurses, with a Superintendent of Nurses and assistant, seven head nurses and thirty-six probationers or pupil nurses. A PPEN DIX. Chapter 395 of the Acts of 1897, as Amended by Chapter 451 of the Acts of 1897. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN, PAUPERs, INSANE PER— SONS AND CRIMINALS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The Children’s Institutions Department, the Pauper Institutions Department, the Insane Hospital Department and the Institutions Registration Department, of the City of Boston, are hereby created as departments of said city, and shall be under the charge of the officers herein designated therefor. Said officers shall be citizens or taxpayers of said city, and shall be appointed by the mayor of said city without confirmation by the board of aldermen. The provisions of chapter two hundred and sixty-six of the Acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of all other acts relating to the departments of the City of Boston, or the officers or employees thereof, except as otherwise herein provided, shall be applicable to said departments and the officers and employees thereof. SECT. 2. Each of said departments, except the Institutions Registration Department, shall be under the charge of a board of seven trustees, at least two of whom shall always be women; during the current year one of said trustees for each of said departments shall be appointed for the term of five years, two for the term of four years, one for the term of three years, two for the term of two years and one for the term of one year, beginning with the first day of May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven ; and hereafter in the year in which any term or terms shall expire a trustee or trustees shall be appointed for the term of five years, beginning with the first day of May in the year of appointment; any vacancy occurring among said trustees shall be filled by appointment of a trustee as aforesaid for the remainder of the term. Said trustees shall serve without compensation, but all expenses reasonably incurred by them in the performance of their duty shall be paid by said city if approved by a recorded vote of the board of which the trustee incurring such expense is a member. They shall organize on the first Monday of May in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, by the choice of a chairman who shall be one of their number, and of |